Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
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I guess DDoSing a moderation team with spurious complaint threads is a thing now
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“this is `aynrando1970`s first contribution, please welcome them to the #NixOS Discourse!”
After countless hours of pushing for change in the #NixOS project's governance, there's a result!
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-board-giving-power-to-the-community/44552
We're certainly not there yet, but this is definitely an important step forward, that hopefully finally creates space for solving the rest of the issues.
Now excuse me while I hibernate for the next 3 years to recover...
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personally, if someone on cyberpunk.lol tried to report a post on here or elsewhere for "begging" i'd nuke the entire account without hesitation
it speaks to a sort of horrible cruel capitalism-poisoned mindset that can take shitloads of time and effort to overcome, and i am under no obligation to let other people get caught in that crossfire
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Who called it “search engine optimization” instead of adversarial attacks on ranking algorithms? #SEO
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“How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland? | by Anna Andersen”
Glad somebody wrote about this because it’s an objectively hilarious UX case study
(And they just announced that eleven people managed to get the requisite number of endorsements in time) https://uxdesign.cc/how-do-you-accidentally-run-for-president-of-iceland-0d71a4785a1e
#AskFedi: I'm looking to find new programming languages that meet all(!) of the following criteria:
1. Dynamically typed.
2. Has a conflict-free module system. Not namespaces, not a flat dependency tree. It must support conflicting versions of the same module at different places in the (transitive) dependency tree.
3. Suitable for 'systems programming' tasks like OS kernel development, microcontrollers, ideally also the ability to write C-compatible libraries (some static typing for the API surface there is acceptable).
4. There is usable documentation (it does not need to be perfect).
5. Memory-safe (to at least the level you would find in JS/Python/etc.)
The language doesn't need to be well-known! And it doesn't need to have a lot of libraries available for it, but it should be usable for a real-world personal project. Hit me with your niche recommendations :)
(Please do not argue with me about the requirements. I am aware of what is and isn't possible.)
The more I'm involved in governance issues, the more convinced I've become that social decentralization is a critical component of a functioning society, and scale is the enemy.
There doesn't even have to be any malice involved.
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I hope this emali finds you at all.
sent from a self-hosted email server
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Hey, anyone on the NixOS subreddit. Note that no one from the NixOS community moderates the avenue. It is not an official location for NixOS discussions. And yes, individuals are now adding more FUD to the fire they lit. Again and again. Froggo's sad and hot.
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The fun thing about teaching things like tech ethics and tech & disability is that i get to weave strategies of resistance throughout the semester, and end on reminders that things don't have to stay like this, that they can build new systems together, and that there can be hope. It reminds me, too.
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"Ethics in AI" issues that seem to always get forgotten FOR SOME REASON
Your AI isn't ethical if:
* You boiled the oceans to manufature the hardware it runs on
* Running its data centres consumes the entire water table
* Curating its training data corpus is traumatizing workers in lower income countries for starvation wages
THESE ARE ETHICAL ISSUES TOO BUCKO
Why aren't you talking about them?
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What's the cheapest mini-PC I could use as a media PC (i.e. slap Linux on it and hook it up to the TV permanently)? I have this ASUS stick PC thing but it's running on an old Atom CPU so it's not fast enough to be able to properly handle HD video decoding
I looked it up online and seems like the cheapest ones are like, 300€? Which isn't a lot-a lot but it's still kind of a lot for me 💀
(Note: this is about untangling already-broken governance with long-standing issues, not about providing your feedback on things that are yet to be decided, of course!)
Moral of this story: please *do not* try to involve yourself in governance discussions unless you can commit to being in it for the long haul, because otherwise you will likely just slow down solutions
The problem with trying to solve governance issues in public, is that there's going to be a parade of variably well-intentioned people unfamiliar with the background who nevertheless try to contribute to "solving" them, but who in practice mostly just end up taking energy from the people who have been working on it for a while, because they have to explain things over and over again
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Local Cat Hivemind 
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"If you’d like to find out more about resisting the UK’s racist & hostile immigration system, power mapping, 1-2-1s and other community organising tools, this workbook is for you.
The workbook is a living, breathing and changing publication, which we will update and translate. It’s available in an easy-to-print black/white version and a riso printed publication"
Excellent resource from Solidarity Knows No Borders.
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#Social.coop has been discussing whether to disable images on May 16 and October 10 for #WorldSightDay, as suggested here https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112275637561897034.
One concern raised about this proposal is that it is symbolic and might not do anything to improve the lives of people with visual impairments.
I would like to hear perspectives from people with visual impairments on whether this kind of action is helpful.
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- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
